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Q: How long are you already here?
Natalya: I'm here for two months now. I came over Romania and Yugoslavia.
Q: How did it happen?
Natalya: I have a friend here. With her I wanted to go to Italy and we came here...
Q: With a pimp?
Natalya: Yes, with an Albanian.
Q: How old are you?
Natalya: I am 22. I have a child, it's 2 ½.
Q: Where do you work here?
Natalya: In a cafe in Tetovo. In the center it's the Cobra Bar. I'm already a little known here, so people call for me. They ask for Natasha or Natalia.
Q: Soldiers too?
Natalya: Yeah, they come too. Eight or nine customers from the KFOR. One of them is my regular.
Q: Tell us how you got here from Moldavia.
Natalya: We got sold from Moldavia to Romania. Then to Yugoslavia, driven by bus, car or by foot, whatever... From Romania we had to walk illegaly through a river. In bus they drove through Yugoslavia. There we got sold again. The pimp brought us to Macedonia. We are staying also illegal here.
Q: How did you get sold?
Natalya: For money, what else?
Q: Describe the way through the river...
Natalya: There was a boat.
Q: How many people have you been?
Natalya: Eight girls. Me and another girl got here. I don't where the others have been brought. One was just 15. I don't know where they are.
Q: Do you like it here?
Natalya: So la-la. It's not so bad, it's not very good. I am yearning... Of course I want to go back.
Q: How is the daily life?
Natalya: It's boring. And they pay bad. I have a claim to keep 30% from a customer. 30 DM (15$). But I don't see much of it. It's not enough for anything. You can't earn much when there is Ramadan.
Q: How many Germans are among your customers?
Natalya: Not many, not few... They go also in other brothels.
Q: How do you live?
Natalya: There is a room for all girls. We are severn girls in one room. I can't out of the room during the daytime.
Q: Are there minors too?
Natalya: Of course. Well I heard that. I heaven't seen it.
Q: What nationalities?
Natalya: All kind of... Albanians rarely work here. Moroe Ukrainians... Many got robbed from home. This 15 old girl ran away from home. I really felt pity for her...
Q: Why?
Natalya: Why? Don't know...
Q: What was your first reason to go abroad?
Natalya: Life in Moldavia or Ukranie is bad. Even if you live there a bit better, it's still quite bad. There's hardly work there.
Q: So how did it happen, when you have been trafficked? First you was in Romania...
Natalya: In Romania, we've been three weeks in Iasi, locked in a room. We didn't work there. Just waited for the next journey. Then we continues with a bus and with a car to the Danube... Some guys waited there. We've been just two days in Yugoslavia. Then we marched by foot over to Macedonia.
Q: How do you get back now?
Natalya: To get back, I need a passport and a ticket. I don't have any money for a ticket or passport. I am totally dependent on the pimp. That's bad but what can you do?
Q: Do you have a place where you can go?
Natalya: Ì want to go home... And then to Moskow. There are relatives of my husband...
Q: What do you think about all this?
Natalya: What should I think? I don't want to do this kind of work, but what can I do? Nothing. All the women just wanted to Italy to work there and landed here. None of them wants to do this, what what can you do if you have no passport?
Q: What do you do when you have any problems?
Natalya: When there are problems I tell it the pimp.
Q: Tell us about the men from the KFOR...
Natalya: I can't keep their names. This always got to be quick because they never have much time. Just one hour or so. And then I can't speak german. They are friendly and never make trouble.
Q: What about condoms?
Natalya: I don't want to do it without...
Q: You said, you have child...
Natalya: Yes, with my parent at home. But there's not enough money...
Q: What does it look like where you stay now?
Natalya: A big room with a toilet and a tub. Normal... One bed. Who's not on the bed, sleeps on the ground. Sometimes there is water to wash, sometimes not...
Q: did you ever get cash on the nail?
Natalya: Just bakshish... But even that takes the pimp away...
source: Inge Bell archive (Radiovision.info)